English > please: 4 senses > verb 1, emotionMeaning | Give pleasure to or be pleasing to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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Model | The good news will please her; The performance is likely to please Sue |
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Example | "These colors please the senses" |
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Synonym | delight |
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Cause to | like | Be fond of |
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like | Find enjoyable or agreeable |
Entailed by | titillate | excite pleasurably or erotically |
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Narrower | enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight | hold spellbound |
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endear | make attractive or lovable |
Broader | satisfy, gratify | make happy or satisfied |
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Opposite | displease | Give displeasure to |
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Similar to | please | Give satisfaction |
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Spanish | agradar, complacer, deleitarse, deleitar, disfrutar, encantar, gustar, halagar |
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Catalan | afalagar, agradar, amoixar, complaure, delectar, delitar-se, disfrutar, encantar, plaure |
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Adjectives | pleasant | affording pleasure |
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Nouns | pleaser | a pleasing entertainer |
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pleasing | the act of one who pleases |
pleasure | an activity that affords enjoyment |
pleasure | something or someone that provides a source of happiness |
pleasure | a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |